Anoushka

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Boooooks. Writing. Neurodiverse family. 📚 Shortlisted for The Curae Prize ‘25

A picture of 5 red double-decker buses, two on the left showing just their rear, two on the right showing their fronts and one in the background side on. The sky above is sunny, blue and filled with fluffy white clouds.
A dark haired teenage boy in a dark grey winter coat, blue trousers and a yellow high vis jacket looking at his phone and walking past a red-brown shipping container with razor wire overhead.
A grubby, sad-looking, under-stuffed elf toy wearing a red Santa hat slumps over a London street sign.
A white plate with a heap of spaghetti in tomato sauce, topped with a creamy splodge of burrata cheese and sprinkled with balsamic vinegar. A spoon and fork rest on either side of the plate.
A picture of a large spiky-petalled yellow dahlia bloom streaked with red against a background of greenery.
A hand holding a book with the title Staring: How we Look by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. The somewhat abstract cover art shows a black blind couple walking in the street and being looked at in a celebratory way by children and a woman looking down from a window.